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ByteDance

Builds content apps, business software and AI

Student Researcher - Multiple Teams

AI ResearchConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
InternshipSan Jose, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
  • Research experience in reinforcement learning, sequential decision-making, or agent behavior.
  • First-author publications in accredited machine learning or artificial intelligence conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
  • Solid programming and experimentation skills, including experience with reinforcement learning or large language model frameworks.
  • Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Responsibilities

  • Explore large-scale models and optimize systems.
  • Construct data and perform instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model optimization.
  • Improve model capabilities such as reasoning, coding, and mathematics.
  • Conduct in-depth research and explore future use cases.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with large language model agents, tool use, or prompt-based control.
  • Familiarity with environments such as WebArena, ALFWorld, or programmatic reasoning tasks.
  • Understanding of reinforcement learning techniques such as reward shaping, memory augmentation, or curriculum learning.

About the Company

ByteDance

Builds content apps, business software and AI

ByteDance builds content and creation apps for consumers, alongside collaboration software and AI services for businesses. Its video platforms connect viewers with creators, while CapCut gives people tools to edit and publish videos. The group also develops Lark for workplace communication and shared documents, and its Seed research teams build language, image, video, and speech models used in consumer apps and sold through BytePlus cloud services. It earns money from advertising, commerce services, paid software subscriptions, and usage of its enterprise technology. ByteDance was founded in 2012 and has its operational headquarters in Beijing, China.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$35.1B
Headquarters
Haidian, China
Founded
2012

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